2005 - 2006 - Pinsent Masons Water Yearbook 2012

GERMANY PART 2: COUNTRY ANALYSIS
Private sector company operations (Please see the relevant company entry for details)
Company Parent company (country)
Population served
Water Sewerage Total
AWS Gelsenwasser (Germany) 20,000 55,000 55,000
Berlin Wasser VE/RWE (France/Germany) 3,900,000 3,900,000 3,900,000
Eurawasser Suez (France) 550,000 600,000 600,000
Gelsenwasser Gelsenwasser (Germany) 4,650,000 1,080,000 5,730,000
Hansewasser Gelsenwasser (Germany) 0 550,000 550,000
MVV Mannheim Municipality 1,050,000 400,000 1,050,000
Oewa VE (France)/VKR (Germany) 730,000 710,000 730,000
RWE Aqua RWE (Germany) 2,100,000 4,400,000 6,300,000
S’werke Göttingen Gelsenwasser (Germany) 50,000 0 50,000
Severn Trent Severn Trent (UK) 0 45,000 45,000
Stadtwerke Görlitz VE (France) 80,000 80,000 80,000
Stadtwerke Gera VE (France) 165,000 0 165,000
WTE EVN (Austria) 21,000 81,000 81,000
Politics and the private sector
Bad Schwalbach in Hesse has let its contract with Süwag Wasser (RWE) expire at the end of 2002,
after becoming coalition partners in the local government. This is despite Süwag’s good record in the
four years since it took over these services in 1999.
€million 1996-98 1999-02
Investment 2.20 6.20
Profits -0.62 0.73
Price per m 3 5.14 4.93
Private sector contracts awarded (Please see the relevant company entry for details)
Location Contract Company
Altenburg 20 year sewerage BOOT WTE
Berlin 30 year water and sewerage concession VE/RWE
Bremen Sewerage and sewage treatment Hansewasser
Döbeln/Oschatz 4 year water and sewerage management Oewa
Gelsenkirschen 30 year water concession Gelsenwasser
Gera O&M, water provision Stadwerke Gera
Görlitz Municipal services Stadwerke Görlitz
Goslar 25 year sewerage concession Eurawasser
Göttingen Municipal services Stadwerke Göttingen
Kiel Water and sewerage concession MVV
Leipzig 25 year water and sewerage concession Oewa
M-Pomerania Two 25 year concessions Eurawasser
Nohra 10 year sewage treatment management Severn Trent
Rostock 25 year sewerage concession Eurawasser
Saxony Two 25 year water concessions Eurawasser
Saxony Anhalt Water and sewerage contracts Owea
Windeck 25 year water and sewerage BOOT WTE
100 Pinsent Masons Water Yearbook 2005 – 2006